Promoting Teen Tech Week

You can have the greatest tech programs in the world, but you need to get the word out. YALSA offers a number of tools that can help you:

Sample press release Copy and paste this press release into a Word document and update with your own information. Send it to your local newspaper. At a school? Have this listed in your district's newsletter or see if students at your school can put it into the student newspaper. Post it on your blog, as a note on Facebook, or any other online social network that's appropriate.

PSA scripts Use these scripts for public service announcements! Contact your community radio station or public access television station and see if they can read them on air. At school, ask if these messages can be incorporated into morning announcements.

Letters to the editor Do you have teens or parents you know who would like to help get the word out about library events? Ask them to write letters to the editor of your local paper! YALSA has created two templates, one for teens and one for parents.

Register for the logo You can get your own version of the 2011 Teen Tech Week logo to use at your library! Put it on your website or blog. But the only way to get this year's logo is to register.